Fidel Castro asks North Korea to avoid war

Just spotted this and thought it was interesting. Didn't see it elsewhere but apparently, Fidel Castro is chiming in on the North Korea/US issues.
Worth a full read.

“Now that (North Korea) has demonstrated its technical and scientific achievements, we remind her of her duties to the countries which have been her
great friends, and it would be unjust to forget that such a war would particularly affect more than 70 per cent of the population of the planet.”

Aside from the obvious, Castro looks really old (probably because he is), I found what he was saying as being actually pretty diplomatic. As articles
about North Korea are ranging from describing its young leader in a variety of disparaging remarks and probably just pouring more salt on the wound, I
think his words were actually very well and carefully chosen to basically soothe a bruised ego. Not sure but not often that Castro pops up on the
political scene.

I was really surprised to see this article as well. Castro had been off the radar for so long, at least, to the US. The title was how it was
presented by The Hindu but yes, he addresses the US and Barack Obama as well with some equally tough words. He cuts to the chase for both Kim Jong Un
and Barack Obama. To Kim Jong Un, Castro basically acknowledges their technological advancement but nails what Kim Jong Un is doing down quite
succinctly--"70% of the population of this planet dead". Kind of like "is that what you really want? You prepared to live with that reality?".
Then, to Obama, stating that if he doesn't stop this, Obama will go down in history associated with images that will forever make him
sinister--probably like Truman being remembered for Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Castro really didn't mess around with his words.

Thats rich coming from Castro who brought Earth to the brink of nuclear anniliation in 1963. Maybe he knows his time on the planet is running out. A
few years at most before inevitably like everyone of us he will shuffle his mortal coil. And so he is projecting his fears via this speech?

I considered that, too, but then again, maybe that's the point. Castro was Kim Jong Un once and, based on his words, has come to regret that
experience. So yes, "rich" coming from Castro and highly appropriate to come from somebody who has been in that exact same scenario.

Last I heard his brother, Raul, is running the show. But I find it interesting that Fidel is making this comment, he obviously thinks that the threat
is real. Maybe the MSM is reporting this stuff truthfully. I am surprised he didn't come out and say something like this is a conspiracy by the US to
destroy a communist nation and gain more power in Asia.

Well in my opinion here......and it counts because I remember the "Cuban Missile" thing, is that if Cuba is saying knock it off boys then there is
something really big happening and it is spooking more than just the USA.

The fact that he didn't say those things actually disturbs me even more. Castro in the role of mediator is not something that anyone would expect,
especially in the US. It's quite obvious that he is playing mediator and trying to lay it all on the line with gently worded punches. The Cuban
Missile Crisis happened before I was born, so I don't have Iwinder's personal experience, but I definitely get the feeling that for Castro to do
this, it's pretty darn spooky. He's spooked out and he was one of the players of a similar scenario a long time ago. Not good.

you're probably thinking of Hugo Chavez of Venezuela who passed recently. I agree with the OP...who better than Castro to warn both countries?
He's the only living player left from the Cuban Missile crisis.

Jay-Z & Beyonce were just there not long ago throwing a huge party. Seems more and more people in Congress are for less sanctions on Cuba nowadays.
Fedel's brother took over the leadership role some years back but I imagine what Fidel says goes. His brother has been much more moderate and light
handed than he ever was though.

Originally posted by MichiganSwampBuck
I thought Castro was dead. I know he isn't running the show in Cuba anymore, or is he?

I hope I'm not one of those people who had a time slip or have experienced some alternate reality.

While reading this I thought, I could have sworn I heard/read he was dead too? Then I turned to my husband and read him this post and said

"I thought Fidel Castro was dead too."

and my husband replied

"he is."

ETA: I now realize why I thought he was dead, but its funny how these things pop out of nowhere, and I won't disregard that in some alternate reality
he is dead and somehow we all tapped into that simultaneously.

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